Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-26

fostering in the low haunts of vice, and
~fouudering in dissipation, and making
the midnight OF their lives horrid with
a long how of ruin, or whether from
your family affairs shall come the chris
tians, the reformers. the teachers, the
ministers OF Christ, the comforters Of
the troubled, the healers of the sick,
the enacters of good laws, the founders
OF charitable Institutions, and a great
! ma y who shall in the humble spheres
OF toll aud usefulness serve God and
the best interests Of the human race.
You cannot as parents shirk the re.
sponsibility. God has charged you
with "A mission, and all the thrones of
heaven are waiting to- see whether you
Will do your duty. We must not for
get that it is not so much what we teach
our children as what we are in their
presence. We wish them to be better
than we are, but the probability is that
they will only be reproductions of our
character German literature has
much to say OF the Spectre of Brock
en-" Among those mountains travel
ers in certain conditions of the atmos-
phere see themselves copied on IA gi-
gantic scale in the clouds. At first the
travellers do not realize that il is them
selves on "A larger scale. When they
lit "A hand or move the head this mon
ster spectre does the same, and with
such enlargement of proportions that
the scene is most exciting, and thou
sands have gone to that place just TO
behold the spectre OF
BRoCKEN.
The probability is that some OF our
faults which we consider small and in-
significant, if we do not put an end to
them, will be copied on a larger scale
in the lives of our children and perhaps
dilated and exaggerated in spectral
proportions. You need rot go as far
of as the Brocken to see that process
The first thing in Importance in the
education of our children is to make
ourselves, by the grace of God, fit ex-
amples to be copied. The day VIII
COM when you must confront that
chilo, not in the church pew on a calm
Sabbath, but amid the CONSERVATION Of
the rising dead, and the flying heavens,
and q burning world. From your side
that son or daughter, bone of your
bore, heart of your heart, the fathers
brow his brow, the mothers eye his
eve, shah 20 forth to an eternal desti-
ny, What will be your joy if at last
you hear their feet in the same golden
highway, and hear their voices in the
same rapturous song, illustrations,
while the eternal ages last, Of what a
faithful parent could, under God, ac-
complish.
WORD 10 PARENTS.
For all who are trying to do their
duty as parents l quote the tremendous
passage: ''Train up a child in the way
he should 90, and when he is old be
will not depart from it," If through
good discipline and prayer and godly
example you are acting upon that child
you have the right to expect him to
grow up virtuous. And how many
tears of joy you will shed when you see
your child honorable and just and
truthful and Christian and successful
q holy man amid aworld of dishonesty,
a cody oma in a world of frivolous
pretension. When you come TO die
they will gather to bless your last
hours. They will push back the white
locks on your cold forehead and say:
What a good father he always was to
mel" They will fold your hands
peacefully and say; Dear mother!
Size has gone. Her troubles are all
over. Don't she look beautiful